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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 6.
Published in final edited form as: Rev Mod Phys. 2017 Jun 5;89(2):025006. doi: 10.1103/RevModPhys.89.025006

Figure 18.

Figure 18

Schematic merging of two skyrmions. At the merging point the magnetization vanishes at a singular point, the Bloch point (arrow), which acts like the slider of a zipper connecting two vertically-extended skyrmions. [Milde et al., 2013]